What is industrial sheet metal work?
Metalworking requires a real expertise in order to consider the specificity of each metal. This is particularly the case for fine sheet metal work. Precision sheet metal work is one of the most important disciplines in industrial metallurgy. As a specialist in metallurgy and precision welding, TRA-C industrie proposes you today an article on this subject.
What exactly are we talking about?
Industrial sheet metal work, and in particular fine sheet metal work, is a rather specific metal manufacturing process. This advanced field of metallurgy allows extremely precise and meticulous processing of different types of metals to meet the requirements of leading-edge manufacturers. It can concern the work of metal parts as well as products with a small thickness (of the range of a few millimeters).
Industrial thin sheet metal work is an integral part of sectors such as construction, automotive, aeronautics, food processing, railways, nuclear, defense, etc… It allows the conception and the realization of light, innovative and resistant parts.
How is precision sheet metal work created?
The manufacturing process to transform steel, aluminum and stainless steel into thin sheet is called rolling. To do this, a rolling mill is used. The rolling mill is a machine composed of two rolls that rotate in opposite directions. The metal sheets, bars or tubes are passed between these rolls which, by exerting a strong pressure, smooth and refine them. Depending on the manufacturing process and the type of metal being worked, the rolling can be done cold or hot.
What is the difference(s) between fine and industrial sheet metal work?
When we use the terms “fine sheet metal work” and “industrial sheet metal work”, we are not dealing with quite the same field:
- Indeed, the fine sheet metal work concerns rather the machining of a product or a part out of metal of very weak thickness and manufactured in small quantity even a single part.
- This differentiates it from industrial sheet metal work, which is concerned with the processing of metal parts and products in larger quantities.
- Finally, we can meet the term “industrial fine sheet metal work”: a kind of in-between. Industrial thin sheet metal work is the working of thin metal parts and products in larger series.
For your needs in fine sheet metal work or industrial sheet metal work, you must call upon an expert; only him can propose you a service to measure and of quality. Do you have a project requiring precision sheet metal work? Contact TRA-C industrie to talk about it. We will make a point of answering you quickly to propose you a service meeting in all point your expectations.
TRA-C industrie : your expert in fine and industrial sheet metal work in France and Europe
TRA-C industrie proposes you a global industrial approach with a real recognized expertise. In order to meet the needs of our most demanding customers, we have a subsidiary specializing in industrial and precision sheet metal work in the Puy-de-Dôme, near Clermont-Ferrand.
Thanks to Jacques Soudure, whose premises are located in Cournon d’Auvergne, we have the human skills and the machines required to work on fine sheet metal (from 0.3 mm to 10 mm) whether it is stainless steel, steel or aluminum. Our building, with a surface of 2100m2, with controlled temperature, is equipped with a park of innovating machines to satisfy the whole of the requests in terms of industrial sheet metal working and assembly on fine sheet.
Our services are complete and turnkey: we are committed daily to offer our clients quality services with high added value. We can thus take care of the design of a product thanks to our research department to its manufacture (treatment of surfaces, application of paints, welding, robotization, laser cutting…) by respecting a precise specification.
Our skills in fine sheet metal work
TRA-C industrie is your privileged partner in fine precision sheet metal work and industrial sheet metal work. Thanks to our highly qualified and experienced employees, as well as the robotization of our machinery, we can carry out all your projects, even the most complex, while optimizing production costs. We propose you our expertise in :
- welding: welding is certainly the field that has made our reputation for excellence. We position ourselves as the European leader in FSW welding, but we also propose our expertise in all types of welding (TIG, MIG and MAG welding, orbital, stir or resistance welding…)
- laser cutting: it combines speed and precision. It ensures a clean and flawless cut, even for the most complex elements. We put at your disposal a laser cutting machine of last generation (fiber laser with stocker and cutting table of 1500×3000).
- stamping: this cutting technique allows to leave a punch or a mark on the material.
- bending: we have robotized bending cells. In doing so, we can achieve complex and/or highly accurate bends while reducing product defects and ensuring constant repeatability.
- industrial painting: thanks to our surface treatment firm, we can carry out your industrial sheet metal projects right up to the finishing of the sub-assemblies in paint.
- complex assemblies : TRA-C industrie is able to realize the totality of your sub-assemblies including automatism, pneumatics, or electromechanics… We commit ourselves to answer your budgetary, technical and time constraints.
- robotized production cells and special machines: more broadly, we support our customers in the growth and development of Industry 4.0. Our engineers, PhD students and technicians design and manufacture complete robotic production cells and special machines.
The fine and industrial sheet metal work allows the realization of metal parts of low thickness with a high degree of precision. In addition to our expertise in this metallurgical manufacturing process, TRA-C industrie proposes a complete range of services to enable you to face the technical and technological challenges.
